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Trump Finishes DACA, Calls On Congress To Act
The Obama-era program will expire in six months, the administration said on Tuesday. Deferred Activity for Childhood Arrivals granted legal protections to harshly 800,000 people.
DACA, One Student’s Story
Hurricane Irma’s likely path through the Caribbean is shown on this NOAA map from eleven a.m. ET Tuesday. The blue lines display its potential track — not the outer edge of Irma’s strong winds. National Hurricane Center hide caption
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Category five Hurricane Irma Brings 185-MPH Winds To Bear On Caribbean Islands
Irma is the strongest hurricane the National Hurricane Center has ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
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Western Wildfires Endanger Beloved Sites At National Parks
In A Case That Is ‘Almost Unlikely,’ Female Dies Of Malaria In Italy
Putin: North Korea Would ‘Eat Grass’ Before Providing Up Nukes
Calling Nurse A ‘Hero,’ Utah Hospital Bars Police From Patient-Care Areas
Publisher Tronc To Purchase Fresh York’s ‘Daily News’
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Dr. Ruth Berggren stands outside Charity Hospital in Fresh Orleans, where she cared for patients during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Cheryl Gerber/AP hide caption
Shots – Health News
A Doctor Who Survived Katrina Now Tends Victims Of Harvey
Dr. Ruth Berggren spent six days fighting to keep patients alive in in Fresh Orleans’ Charity Hospital after Hurricane Katrina hit. She’s now caring for evacuees from Hurricane Harvey.
Texas Expedites Help From Out-Of-State Health Care Providers
An Anopheles mosquito — the only kind that can spread malaria — feeds on a human. On Monday a 4-year-old chick died of the disease in Italy, where malaria was thought to have been eradicated. Sinclair Stammers/Science Photo Library/Getty Pictures/Science Photo Library RM hide caption
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In A Case That Is ‘Almost Unlikely,’ Doll Dies Of Malaria In Italy
“It’s a mystery,” said one health official. Italy has been proclaimed malaria-free since 1970.
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Calling Nurse A ‘Hero,’ Utah Hospital Bars Police From Patient-Care Areas
“Law enforcement who come to the hospital for any reason involving patients will be required to check in to the front desk of the hospital,” the chief nursing officer says.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a speech during the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries in Xiamen in southeastern China’s Fujian Province, on Tuesday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
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Putin: North Korea Would ‘Eat Grass’ Before Providing Up Nukes
Speaking at a news conference in China, the Russian leader also said the “military hysteria” whipped up inbetween Washington and Pyongyang “could cause a global catastrophe.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan (left) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have a packed schedule when Congress comebacks this week. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Politics
6 Priorities Congress Has To Deal With In twelve Days
Lawmakers have less than two weeks of legislative days to head off a government shutdown, raise the nation’s borrowing limit and provide financial assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
‘Up Very first’ Podcast: DACA’s Future Is Up In The Air
A fire truck is placed outside Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park, Mont., on Sunday as firefighters prepare for a blaze that is menacing the century-old Swiss chalet-style hotel. National Park Service via AP hide caption
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Western Wildfires Endanger Beloved Sites At National Parks
A 20-square-mile blaze burned the historic Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park last week. In California’s Sierra National Forest, an ancient grove of sequoias was scorched, but the trees survived.
In this Sept. 12, 2016, file photo, pedestrians cross Pennsylvania Avenue across the street from the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Politics
Professor: thirty seven Historic Dictionaries Disagree With Trump’s Definition of ‘Emolument’
The word — at the heart of a suit about the Trump D.C. hotel — now seems obscure and technical. It was more common, and had a more general meaning, when the Constitution was drafted, a scholar said.
An armed private security team patrols amongst some of John Hume’s 1,500 rhinos at Buffalo Wish Ranch, North West Province, South Africa in April 2016. The pic is a still from Trophy, directed by Shaul Schwarz and co-directed by Christina Clusiau. Courtesy of Shaul Schwarz/Reel Peak Films. hide caption
Opinion
13.7: Cosmos And Culture
‘Trophy’ Asks Hard Questions About How To Save Wild Animals
The movie, opening this week, portrays the stark cruelty in trophy-hunting — and exposes hard realities about wildlife conservation in Africa, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
Taylor Swift attends the Met Gala on May Two, 2016. Her latest single “Look What You Made Me Do” has violated several chart and streaming records in the week and a half since its release. Mark Sagliocco/Getty Photos hide caption
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Taylor Swift’s ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Cracks Records, Stops ‘Despacito’ Brief
Since its release on Aug. 25, the very first single from Reputation has cracked records all over the place — and cost the year’s largest single a historic notch in its belt.
Tilman Fertitta, seen here at a television premier last year in Universal City, Calif. A native Texan, Fertitta possesses the Houston-based restaurant chain Landry’s, Inc. And now he is set to own the Houston Rockets, too. Michael Boardman/Getty Pictures hide caption
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Houston Rockets Set To Get A Fresh Holder: Local Billionaire Tilman Fertitta
Reported to be an NBA record $Two.Two billion, the sale still must get the league’s OK. Leslie Alexander, the team’s possessor since 1993, is selling it for about $1.Five billion more than what he bought it for.
Sen. Bob Menendez fields questions about his corruption trial last month in Union Beach, N.J. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption
Accused Of Accepting Lavish Trips And Gifts, Sen. Menendez Goes On Trial
The corruption case is a major political fall for a man who made his name fighting public corruption. But prosecutors face an uphill battle at trial thanks to a latest Supreme Court case.
Accused Of Accepting Lavish Trips And Gifts, Sen. Menendez Goes On Trial
In a photo from 2015, then-Republican presidential candidate, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, welcomes Fresh York Daily News publisher Mortimer Zuckerman during a luncheon hosted by the Committee to Whip out Prosperity, at the the Yale Club in Fresh York. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption
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Publisher Tronc To Purchase Fresh York’s ‘Daily News’
The long-struggling tabloid, rival of The Fresh York Post, will reportedly go for just $1 and the assumption of operational and pension liabilities.
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. Juan Labreche/AP hide caption
National Security
Ways The U.S. Could Fight Future Election Interference
Protecting the casting and counting of votes is only one potential issue for policymakers. How a cyberattack might disrupt Election Day in two thousand eighteen or two thousand twenty is one of the big unanswered questions.
Timeline: Foreign Efforts To Hack State Election Systems And How Officials Responded
United Nations U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses a U.N. Security Council meeting on North Korea, on Monday. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption
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U.S. Says North Korea Is ‘Begging For War’
Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, called on the U.N. Security Council to impose “the strongest possible measures” on Pyongyang after its latest nuclear weapon test.
Here Are The Facts About North Korea’s Nuclear Test
North Korea Claims Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test
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Joe’s Big Idea
The Army, The Inventor And The Surprising Uses Of A Batman Machine
The Army wished a fresh, puny device that could pull a person rapidly up a wire. The invention they eventually got has uses far beyond the military.
The Army, The Inventor And The Surprising Uses Of A Batman Machine
One of Twitty’s projects is his “Southern Discomfort Tour” — a journey through the “forgotten little Africa” of the Old South. He picks cotton, chops wood, works in rice fields and cooks for audiences in plantation kitchens while dressed in marionette clothing to recreate what his ancestors had to suffer. Courtesy of Michael Twitty hide caption
The Salt
A Black Food Historian Investigates His Bittersweet Connection To Robert E. Lee
Michael Twitty’s enslaved ancestors witnessed the Confederate general’s capitulate, the significance of which weaves through his fresh memoir as he seeks ‘culinary justice’ for African Americans.
‘Tar Baby’: A Folk Tale About Food Rights, Rooted In The Inequalities Of Slavery
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels chronicles the development process of ten movie games, including Halo Wars, Shovel Knight, Fate and Uncharted Four. Christina Ascani/NPR hide caption
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Book Reviews
‘Blood, Sweat, And Pixels’: For Designers Of Movie Games, It’s Always Crunch Time
Journalist Jason Schreier walks readers through the development of ten latest games, finding marked similarities in the essential infrastructure of their design and production.
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Here’s How Congress Could Act To Save DACA
There are several bills already pending in Congress that could help so-called “DREAMers” that may build up steam after Trump’s decision to stop the Obama program. Some permit paths for citizen
‘Up Very first’ Podcast: Trump Turns To Congress To Protect DREAMers
Five Questions About DACA Answered
Microsoft President To Trump: To Deport A DREAMer, You’ll Have To Go Through Us
Hurricane Irma’s likely path through the Caribbean is shown on this NOAA map from eleven a.m. ET Tuesday. The blue lines showcase its potential track — not the outer edge of Irma’s strong winds. National Hurricane Center hide caption
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Hurricane Irma Makes Very first Landfall In Northeast Caribbean Islands
Irma is the strongest hurricane the National Hurricane Center has ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
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Protesters In D.C., Denver, LA, Elsewhere Demonstrate Against Rescinding DACA
Seeking Shelter, Harvey Evacuees Stay In State Parks
Putin: North Korea Would ‘Eat Grass’ Before Providing Up Nukes
Cousin Who Witnessed Emmett Till Abduction Dies At 74
Lee Relative Who Denounced White Supremacy Resigns As Pastor Of N.C. Church
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Activists marched to Trump Tower in Fresh York in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s elimination of the DACA program. Albin Lohr-Jones/Getty Photos hide caption
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‘You See In Their Eyes The Fear’: DACA Students Face An Uncertain Future
About 800,000 youthfull people had signed up for the DACA program. Now their education and work permits are at risk as President Trump mitts the issue to Congress.
Protesters In D.C., Denver, LA, Elsewhere Demonstrate Against Rescinding DACA
Obama Calls Trump’s Reversal On DREAMers ‘Self-Defeating,’ ‘Aggressive’
Escort volunteers line up outside the EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville, Ky. ahead of a large anti-abortion rights protest earlier this summer. Dylan Lovan/AP hide caption
Kentucky Could Become The Only State Without A Clinic That Performs Abortions
A federal trial pits the last remaining clinic providing abortions in Kentucky against the state’s Republican administration, which says the center failed the meet state health standards.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., is working with Patty Murray, D-Wash. on a bill to stabilize the health insurance market. Zach Gibson/Getty Pics hide caption
Shots – Health News
Chastened Lawmakers Aim For Petite, Bipartisan Health Care Victories
Senate Republicans and Democrats are attempting something fresh on health care. It’s called cooperation.
Retail food prices have just been through the longest period of deflation in about sixty years. Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures hide caption
The Salt
Grocery Prices Have Been Falling. Did You Notice?
For nineteen months in a row, food prices in America’s supermarkets fell compared to a year earlier. This is good news for shoppers but has weighed on the grocery industry and the people who grow our food.
Grocery Prices Have Been Falling. Did You Notice?
Former San Francisco 49ers broad receiver Anquan Boldin celebrates scoring a touchdown during the two thousand fourteen NFC Championship. Christian Petersen/Getty Pictures hide caption
Sports
‘It’s A Battle For All Of Us’: Anquan Boldin Retires To Concentrate On Activism
After fourteen years in the NFL, Anquan Boldin has dangled up his cleats to concentrate on human rights activism. He says that Events in Charlottesville, Va., led him to determine to switch careers.
‘It’s A Battle For All Of Us’: Anquan Boldin Retires To Concentrate On Activism
Review
Book Reviews
‘Sing’ Mourns The Dead, Both Buried And Unburied
Jesmyn Ward’s lush and lonely fresh novel is set amid the mud, blood and warmth of Mississippi. It’s a road-trip odyssey complicated by thirst, sickness and the murderous racism that infects the town.
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The Record
Run The Jewels On Empowerment And Collective Humanity
El-P and Killer Mike talk to Spread and Bobbito about how they turned slang into a slogan, homophobia in hip-hop, and the importance of cherishing collective humanity over political differences.
Run The Jewels: Lil’ Desk Concert
A fire truck is placed outside Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park, Mont., on Sunday as firefighters prepare for a blaze that is menacing the century-old Swiss chalet-style hotel. National Park Service via AP hide caption
The Two-Way – News Blog
Western Wildfires Endanger Beloved Sites At National Parks
A 20-square-mile blaze burned the historic Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park last week. In California’s Sierra National Forest, an ancient grove of sequoias was scorched, but the trees survived.
“She’s an excellent writer, and I knew this from middle school on,” Nancy Meyers (right) says of her daughter, Hallie Meyers-Shyer. (Both are pictured at Home Again’s Los Angeles premiere in August.) Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
Monkey See
Mother-Daughter Filmmakers Proceed Rom-Com Family Tradition In ‘Home Again’
Hallie Meyers-Shyer says she doesn’t mind being compared to her mom, Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, The Intern). “She’s synonymous with the genre and I think it’s been a positive influence.”
Mother-Daughter Filmmakers Proceed Rom-Com Family Tradition In ‘Home Again’
The Rev. Robert Wright Lee, a relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, resigned on Monday as pastor from a North Carolina church. Above, Lee speaks at the MTV Movie Music Awards in August. Matt Sayles/Invision/AP hide caption
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Lee Relative Who Denounced White Supremacy Resigns As Pastor Of N.C. Church
Robert W. Lee IV said some members of his congregation were awkward with the media attention he received after his speech against racism and hate at MTV’s Movie Music Awards in August.
Juliana Torres (left), 16, and Micaela Lattimer, 16, both of Baltimore, rally in support of Deferred Act for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA, outside the White House on Tuesday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
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Protesters In D.C., Denver, LA, Elsewhere Demonstrate Against Rescinding DACA
The protests go after an announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that an Obama administration policy protecting some children who were brought to the U.S. illegally will be ended.
Trump Completes DACA, Calls On Congress To Act
Obama Calls Trump’s Reversal On DREAMers ‘Self-Defeating,’ ‘Fierce’
A Rohingya woman rests for a moment with her children Tuesday after crossing into Bangladesh. She says she lost several members of her family in Myanmar, where a fresh spate of violence has sent more than 100,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing what they describe as certain death. Bernat Armangue/AP hide caption
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‘I Just Knew To Run To Save My Life’: Almost 125,000 Rohingya Flee Myanmar
Observers expect that number to grow. Myanmar’s crackdown on the Muslim minority has prompted outrage around the world, including ire directed at its civilian leader, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Malala Yousafzai Criticizes Aung San Suu Kyi Over Violence On Myanmar’s Rohingya
Simeon Wright, Emmett Till’s cousin, who witnessed his one thousand nine hundred fifty five abduction, died Monday at the age of 74. M. Spencer Green/ASSOCIATED PRESS hide caption
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Cousin Who Witnessed Emmett Till Abduction Dies At 74
Simeon Wright was just twelve years old when his 14-year-old cousin was taken at gunpoint from the bed they collective. Till was then fiercely hammered and killed.
After an earthen floor is put down, it is covered with an oil-based floor sealant that hardens and makes it effortless to clean. Jacques Nkinzingabo/Courtesy of EarthEnable hide caption
Goats and Soda
Whatever Happened To . The Mission To Get Rid Of Rwanda’s Filth Floors?
A petite project commenced in two thousand fourteen to substitute mud floors, which can make people sick, with sealed earthen floors. Request has only grown — but not exactly in the way the CEO had imagined.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a speech during the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries in Xiamen in southeastern China’s Fujian Province, on Tuesday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
The Two-Way – News Blog
Putin: North Korea Would ‘Eat Grass’ Before Providing Up Nukes
Speaking at a news conference in China, the Russian leader also said the “military hysteria” whipped up inbetween Washington and Pyongyang “could cause a global catastrophe.”
Here Are The Facts About North Korea’s Nuclear Test
U.S. Says North Korea Is ‘Begging For War’
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Here’s How Congress Could Act To Save DACA
There are several bills already pending in Congress that could help so-called “DREAMers” that may build up steam after Trump’s decision to stop the Obama program. Some permit paths for citizenship.
Five Questions About DACA Answered
Microsoft President To Trump: To Deport A DREAMer, You’ll Have To Go Through Us
‘Up Very first’ Podcast: Trump Turns To Congress To Protect DREAMers
Hurricane Irma is expected to hit Puerto Rico Wednesday. In the storm’s path, mandatory evacuation orders are now in effect for Key West and surrounding areas. National Hurricane Center hide caption
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Hurricane Irma Thrusts Toward Puerto Rico, With Florida In Its Glances
The large storm maintained its 185-mph winds after making its very first landfall on Barbuda early Wednesday.
A Doctor Who Weathered Katrina Now Tends Victims Of Harvey
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Houston Methadone Clinics Reopen After Harvey’s Flooding
Protesters In D.C., Denver, LA, Elsewhere Demonstrate Against Rescinding DACA
Seeking Shelter, Harvey Evacuees Stay In State Parks
Putin: North Korea Would ‘Eat Grass’ Before Providing Up Nukes
Cousin Who Witnessed Emmett Till Abduction Dies At 74
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Activists marched to Trump Tower in Fresh York in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s elimination of the DACA program. Albin Lohr-Jones/Getty Pictures hide caption
NPR Ed
‘You See In Their Eyes The Fear’: DACA Students Face An Uncertain Future
About 800,000 youthfull people had signed up for the DACA program. Now their education and work permits are at risk as President Trump arms the issue to Congress.
Protesters In D.C., Denver, LA, Elsewhere Demonstrate Against Rescinding DACA
Obama Calls Trump’s Reversal On DREAMers ‘Self-Defeating,’ ‘Aggressive’
Escort volunteers line up outside the EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville, Ky. ahead of a large anti-abortion rights protest earlier this summer. Dylan Lovan/AP hide caption
Around the Nation
Kentucky Could Become The Only State Without A Clinic That Performs Abortions
A federal trial pits the last remaining clinic providing abortions in Kentucky against the state’s Republican administration, which says the center failed to meet state health standards.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., is working with Patty Murray, D-Wash. on a bill to stabilize the health insurance market. Zach Gibson/Getty Pics hide caption
Shots – Health News
Chastened Lawmakers Aim For Puny, Bipartisan Health Care Victories
Senate Republicans and Democrats are attempting something fresh on health care. It’s called cooperation.
Retail food prices have just been through the longest period of deflation in about sixty years. Joe Raedle/Getty Pics hide caption
The Salt
Grocery Prices Have Been Falling. Did You Notice?
For nineteen months in a row, food prices in America’s supermarkets fell compared to a year earlier. This is good news for shoppers but has weighed on the grocery industry and the people who grow our food.
Grocery Prices Have Been Falling. Did You Notice?
Former San Francisco 49ers broad receiver Anquan Boldin celebrates scoring a touchdown during the two thousand fourteen NFC Championship. Christian Petersen/Getty Pics hide caption
Sports
‘It’s A Battle For All Of Us’: Anquan Boldin Retires To Concentrate On Activism
After fourteen years in the NFL, Anquan Boldin has strung up up his cleats to concentrate on human rights activism. He says that events in Charlottesville, Va., led him to determine to switch careers.
‘It’s A Battle For All Of Us’: Anquan Boldin Retires To Concentrate On Activism
Review
Book Reviews
‘Sing’ Mourns The Dead, Both Buried And Unburied
Jesmyn Ward’s lush and lonely fresh novel is set amid the mud, blood and warmth of Mississippi. It’s a road-trip odyssey complicated by thirst, sickness and the murderous racism that infects the town.
Writing Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward Salvages Stories Of The Muffled
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The Record
Run The Jewels On Empowerment And Collective Humanity
El-P and Killer Mike talk to Spread and Bobbito about how they turned slang into a slogan, homophobia in hip-hop, and the importance of cherishing collective humanity over political differences.
Run The Jewels: Lil’ Desk Concert
A fire truck is placed outside Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park, Mont., on Sunday as firefighters prepare for a blaze that is menacing the century-old Swiss chalet-style hotel. National Park Service via AP hide caption
The Two-Way – News Blog
Western Wildfires Endanger Beloved Sites At National Parks
A 20-square-mile blaze burned the historic Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park last week. In California’s Sierra National Forest, an ancient grove of sequoias was scorched, but the trees survived.
“She’s an excellent writer, and I knew this from middle school on,” Nancy Meyers (right) says of her daughter, Hallie Meyers-Shyer. (Both are pictured at Home Again’s Los Angeles premiere in August.) Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
Monkey See
Mother-Daughter Filmmakers Proceed Rom-Com Family Tradition In ‘Home Again’
Hallie Meyers-Shyer says she doesn’t mind being compared to her mom, Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, The Intern). “She’s synonymous with the genre and I think it’s been a positive influence.”
Mother-Daughter Filmmakers Proceed Rom-Com Family Tradition In ‘Home Again’
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All Songs Considered
St. Vincent Announces Fresh Album ‘Masseduction,’ Releases Fresh Single ‘Los Ageless’
This morning, St. Vincent released the details about her fresh album, a fresh single, and held a press conference in a display of media wrangling prowess.
Susan Arawley (left) speaks with Jamie Creacy, superintendent of the Lost Pines Complicated, which includes Bastrop State Park. As Hurricane Harvey hit, Arawley attempted picking up supplies and got stuck in rising flood water. After sleeping in her car four nights, she determined to head to Bastrop State Park, where she could take a shower. Katie Hayes Luke for NPR hide caption
Seeking Shelter, Harvey Evacuees Stay In State Parks
Harshly 7,500 people have sought shelter after Hurricane Harvey at state parks in Texas.